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Tung Chee-hwa GBM (Chinese: 董建華; born 7 July 1937) is a Hong Kong businessman and retired politician who served as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong between 1997 and 2005, upon the transfer of sovereignty on 1 July.
May 25, 2024 · Tung Chee-hwa (born May 29, 1937, Shanghai, China) is a Chinese businessman and politician and, upon the completion of the handover of Hong Kong back to China on July 1, 1997, he became the first chief executive (1997–2005) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (S.A.R.) of China.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 17, 2023 · Hong Kong’s first post-handover leader, Tung Chee-hwa, 85, will step down from China’s top political advisory body as a vice-chairman – but former chief executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor...
Jul 8, 2024 · Tung Chee Hwa is the eldest son of shipping magnate Tung Chao Yung, who founded what became one of Hong Kong's largest shipping companies. After running Orient Overseas for 14...
Former shipping tycoon Tung Chee-hwa was seen as a surprise choice. A low-key businessman, rather than a civil servant or politician, he had seemingly emerged from nowhere to become the city’s...
- Cliff Buddle
Apr 2, 2021 · Tung Chee-hwa, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, delivers a speech during a conference organized by Our Hong Kong Foundation in south China's Hong Kong, March 12, 2021.
Hong Kong’s first chief executive Tung Chee-hwa has stepped down as chairman of a think tank he founded in 2014, taking on an honorary role amid concerns over his health.
